U.S. border officials have caught more people with eggs than fentanyl this year

a year ago by schizoidman to c/nottheonion

U.S. President Donald Trump has made stopping fentanyl at both the northern and southern borders one of his administration's top priorities, but American law enforcement data shows that another commodity appears far more often in seizures: eggs.

huppakee 103 points a year ago

It's because there is not enough tariffs in place.

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NJSpradlin 66 points a year ago

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chaosCruiser 24 points a year ago

If an artist is using their grant money on booze and art supplies, the government will get a fair bit of the money back through taxes. If the artist does drugs instead, the government is missing out. The obvious choice would be to start taxing all narcotics and intoxicants.

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sfxrlz 5 points a year ago

Also in general, you would save loads of money wasted on war on drugs

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FauxLiving 7 points a year ago

Lemmy poster angling for a cabinet position:

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natecox 53 points a year ago

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Skullgrid 40 points a year ago

to contextualise : eggs aren't just food, they could also contain various animals that could distrupt the ecosystem, hence why they were smuggled before, why border cops are looking for them, etc.

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p03locke 11 points a year ago

But, most of them are just food, because we would never have this uptick in smuggling otherwise.

And we're signaling border officials to throw away all of that food, as if we didn't waste enough food in this county.

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atzanteol -2 points a year ago

Most isn't all.

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tal -7 points a year ago

hey could also contain various animals that could distrupt the ecosystem,

The only thing that an egg that someone is likely smuggling in is going to contain is a chicken, and we're also currently short of the egg-laying variants of chickens, so a black-market Canuck egg-laying chicken wouldn't go amiss either.

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Skullgrid 7 points a year ago

The only thing that an egg that someone is likely smuggling in is going to contain is a chicken

and you personally can tell apart chicken eggs from rare lizard eggs or any other egg that might be a similar size to a chicken egg?

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Narauko 3 points a year ago

Just about the only hard shelled reptile eggs are crocodilian, some turtles, and a few outliers like some geckos. Very few of any of those would be confused with chicken eggs. There also are (hopefully still) wildlife experts as part of border patrol who can and do make those determinations.

That said, there are endangered bird and reptile species that we don't want trafficked and smuggled eggs get rescued by animal control portions of border security unfortunately all the time and they should keep doing their job.

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Tja 2 points a year ago

Aaaaand they're fired.

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aramis87 37 points a year ago

CBP intercepted egg products on 3,254 occasions this January and February, compared to 1,508 occasions in the first two months of 2024.

TIL that people were "smuggling" eggs across the border last year as well. I wonder what the earlier historical numbers have been - there had to be some historical number of border residents doing it in their periodic cross-border visits, and unknowing vacationers who bought a dozen or two to cook while they're camping and just brought the remainder home.

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mp3 30 points a year ago

Let's try smuggling Kinder Surprise eggs instead, maybe that will relieve the tension.

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Aggravationstation 4 points a year ago

Also the capsules that are in Kinder Surprise eggs are great for smuggling drugs in your bum. A perfect circle.

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sfxrlz 4 points a year ago

Still illegal? My mom smuggled some like 10 ys ago and border protection didn’t even shoot at us … fucking amateurs

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hybridep 13 points a year ago

What are they afraid of with foreign eggs? Bird Flu?

Edit: obligatory /s

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CobblerScholar 19 points a year ago

Among everything else that could go wrong with eggs from an untraceable unknown farm with an unknown level of safety management

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JasonDJ 8 points a year ago

Eggs can contain invasive species.

Chicken eggs can come in all sorts of shapes and colors. Hard to say for sure that an egg is definitively a chicken egg just on visual inspection.

Of course, having the eggs in an incubator is probably a sure-fire way of telling they don't intend to eat them...

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Grimtuck 6 points a year ago

They're scared because other countries don't wash them. They don't realise that this keeps them fresherv for longer without needing to keep them cool.

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PrimeErective 13 points a year ago

Maybe they should try using honey

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deathbird 9 points a year ago

Because people don't realize that there are restrictions on eggs, and they're cheaper in neighboring nations.

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MyOpinion 8 points a year ago

The new white gold!